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According to Riyaz Lalani, chief executive of the financial communications firm Bayfield Strategy Inc., the stage has been set for even more proxy contests.
And Lalani, whose work covers both activist investors and companies trying to defend themselves against such attacks, believes there will be an increase even though the Canadian regulatory authorities proposed two months back a new harmonized take-over bid regime.

The deal between Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) and Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI) was confirmed on November 17. The $34.6 billion deal is the fourth-largest deal in the past four years, among all deals worth more than $10 billion.

Now that mobile carriers have switched from subsidizing handsets to making us buy them our own darn selves, their inducement for customers to switch is now offering to pay off what you owe to our old carrier. That could be early termination fees, or your balance from buying a device on installments: doesn’t matter.

Less than two days after the US Treasury cracked down on inversion deals, and one deal in particular, Pfizer's pharma record $160 billion acqisition of Allergan, moments ago the two companies announced the deal is officially over. From the press release: Pfizer Announces Termination of Proposed Combination with Allergan

The British bank has set aside $2 billion against fines, settlements and other expenses related to money-laundering accusations in the United States and claims against the inappropriate selling of financial products in Britain.

The British government may start selling its stakes in the Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland as soon as next year, following a strategy similar to the one employed by the United States as it exited Citigroup.